PAC Resources

Program Advisory Committee (PAC)

PAC 12 Call for Proposals

PAC12 and Call for Proposals:

The Jefferson Laboratory Program
Advisory Committee (PAC12) will consider new proposals, updates, and
letters-of-intent. PAC12 will also review the plans for experiments in the
three Halls. PAC12 will meet August 4-8, 1997. The JLab Technical
Advisory Committee will make comments on the technical viability of the
proposals and provide these comments to the spokespersons and the PAC
prior to the meeting. As always, proposals will be judged on the quality of
the physics, technical feasibility, and the ability of the group to carry out
the proposed measurements.

Guidelines for New Proposals, Updates and Letters-of-Intent:

New proposals requiring beam energies up to 6 GeV will be
reviewed by the PAC.

Beam Time:

The beam time request should be provided in some detail. Do not
request any contingency time as the scheduling process includes
this time. The beam requirements and time request, on your attached
forms, should include all of the time for the following activities:

If your collaboration has an approved experiment, a
conditionally approved experiment, or a deferred experiment, and
you would like to modify the physics goals, significantly change your
running conditions, receive reconsideration of your scientific rating,
or achieve full approval for a conditionally approved or deferred
experiment, please submit an update.

Note: The PAC may or may not choose to hear an oral presentation for
updates depending on the scope of the proposed changes.

Deferred experiments:

Deferred experiments must be updated within one year or they
will be removed from future consideration.

Rejected Proposals:

Note, a proposal based on a previously rejected proposal is
considered to be a `new' proposal. Further, this 'new' proposal
must include substantive changes that fully address the issues
raised by the previous PAC for it to be considered by the new
PAC.

Letters-of-Intent

Letters-of-intent may be submitted to solicit the evaluation by the
PAC of a new line of research before investing the large effort
required to prepare a full proposal. In general, the letters-of-intent
will involve either a major new experimental apparatus or extension
of present beam properties. Letters-of-intent will be made public after
receiving PAC appraisal in the same manner as full proposals. This
means that the research program contained in them would enter the
public domain; therefore, the letters-of-intent mechanism cannot be
viewed as a means of "staking out territory." Rather, it provides
experimenters with feedback at an early stage on the PAC's views on
the scientific and technical merit of an idea which the experimenters
intend to develop into a full proposal.

Due Date New Proposals, Updates and Letters-of-Intent

Proposals, Updates and Letters-of-Intent are due in the User Liaison
Office by close of business Thursday, June 26, 1997. Faxes will not be
accepted. If you would like to experiment with submitting your proposal
electronically in either HTML, PDF or postscript format, please contact the
User Liaison Office by June 17, 1997. We will test our ability to locally
acquire and print a draft of your proposal. If successful, you may submit
your proposal electronically by 3:00 p.m. on the due date stated above.

All proposals and updates to be considered by the PAC must also include a
completed:

Procedures for experiments are given in detail at the URL below. The
procedures include the submission and re-submission of proposals, the
PAC's scientific ratings and recommendations of Approval, Conditional
Approval, Deferral or Rejection and beam-time, the Directors award of
beam-time, the experiment preparation and scheduling processes, the
associated Environment, Health and Safety reviews, the running of the
experiments, the allocation of computational resources, and the publication
of results including presentations at conferences.